Over twenty commuters were injured in heavy stone-pelting allegedly by a mob of hundreds of people at the Tilakbridge-Rohtak (TR) passenger train near Nangloi Railway Station, about 10 km away from Bahadurgarh town, located on the border of Delhi and Haryana, on Friday.
The train leaves for Tilakbridge (Delhi) from Rohtak via Bahadurgarh every morning and a large numbers of commuters from Rohtak and Bahadurgarh towns use the train to go to Delhi in connection with their jobs and business purposes.
The traffic on the Rohtak-Delhi railway lines remained disrupted for over two hours due to the incident while commuters had to face a tough time reaching their destinations as several other trains on the route also got delayed owing to disturbance on the Nangloi railway station.
The train services returned to normal after the track was cleared around 10 am.
“The incident took place when someone pulled the chain of the train near Nangloi railway station.
“As soon as the train halted, a group of hundreds of people suddenly started throwing stones on the train,” said Satbir Singh, a commuter who sustained injuries on head and back in the attack.
He maintained that another group of assailants later boarded the train and begun thrashing the commuters without saying anything.
They also caused injuries to some Railway Police Personnel who had come there to save the passengers, he added.
Dharambir, another commuter, informed that the stone pelters also caused damaged to the train because of that it failed to start after the incident.
“Some injured passengers rushed towards Bahadurgarh town to protect their lives while several others were later admitted to hospitals in Nangloi,” said he, adding that most of the commuters chose to take buses and taxes from Nangloi to reach their destinations after the incident.
The railway authorities informed that several trains including Dhauladhar Express, 2 Delhi-Rohtak-Bhiwani (DRB), EMU, Haryana Express, Delhi-Jind (DJ)
passenger, Chhindwara Express which run on the Rohtak-Delhi track in the morning had to be halted at difference places on the route due to disruption near Nangloi railway station.A group of anti-social elements had also pelted stones on the TR train at Nangloi railway station last night when it was on its way to Rohtak from Tilakbridge. Four passengers were injured in the stone-pelting.